Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 EDITED BY TRACEY SLAUGHTER For the 2024 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her selection of 123 new poems from an exhaustive submission process. With work by both established and emerging New Zealand poets, the Yearbook is essential reading for all poetry fans. Copy+Paste the link to order on JBO - https://tinyurl.com/AotearoaYearbook2024 #MasseyUniversityPress #PoetryAotearoaYearbook2024 #TraceySlaughter @masseyuniversitypress
Today I attended a #nzsocietyofauthors workshop hosted by @kleharivel and featuring author #traceyslaughter who was exploring character in depth! It was affirming to see an author speak about the #actingtools used for #characterdevelopment. Because of my history in theatre, characters have always come easily to me, I can feel and see them clearly in my mind. But one of the things I often fall victim to in my writing is being too introspective. I forget to practice the experience of the bodily when putting words into the page. Tracey was excellent at reminding #authors about how important the physical relationship of bodily awareness is to crafting real and experienced characters. I am excited to return to some of my characters and implement bodily awareness into the page more fully! It's funny, while she was talking, I was reminded of my days workshopping fresh actors in #sheilahwinnshakespeare. I had my cast imprint their characters onto themselves, bit by bit and eventually walk around and interact with eachother. Even at 17, I was very intense about character development for the stage! The play was #titusandronicus and after a few weeks of adopting this technique, I remember a day where we caught our reflection in the window and some of us freaked out because we no longer saw ourselves, but our characters staring back at us! It was both horrifying and exhilarating. Almost 20 years later, #tamora still lives in the back of my head somewhere! I'd forgotten that this could be a useful tool to my writing practice too - I love how workshops reinvigorate creative practice! #theatre #writing #workshops #onlineworkshops #nzauthors #authorssupportingauthors #professionaldevelopment #upskilling #writerscommunity #connecting #exploring #creating #buildingcharacters #tipsforwriters #creativewriting #indepthcharacters #writingwell #explorecharacters #creativeprocess #nzwriters
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬: Today we’re beginning a new weekly series sharing the set of micros and creative nonfiction works by Aotearoa NZ writers inspired by lines of Katherine Mansfield’s writing. These works were shared as Phantom Billstickers posters in October 2023 as part of the centenary year of Mansfield’s death and published in the December 2023 issue of Flash Frontier. This week’s work ‘[enough]’ is by Tracey Slaughter, whose most recent publications are the short story collection ‘Devil’s Trumpet’ (2021) and the volume of poetry ‘Conventional Weapons’ (2019). ‘[enough]’ refers to Anne Estelle Rice’s portrait of Mansfield, begun in Cornwall in 1918 and now held in the collection of @te_papa Thanks to At the Bay | I te Kokoru, a community devoted to the short form, from micro and flash fiction to short stories and creative nonfiction, for sharing these posters with us! #wordsonwednesdays #inspiredbykm #nzwriter #nzliterature #traceyslaughter #katherinemansfield
Poetry shelf snapshot. . . #janetcharman #marisorourke #traceyslaughter #hinemoanabaker #elainefeinstein #alexandrafraser #siobhanharvey #mayhemliteraryjournal #johnashberry #madvillepublishing #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetryofinstagram #poetryisnotdead
Administration & Operations Manager Magda is getting stuck into some short stories, true crime, crime and essays this summer. . . . #TraceySlaughter #BehrouzBoochani #SteveBraunias #LiamMcIlvanney
2 poems close to my heart that were included in the amazing collection 'Up Flynn Road, Across Cook Street, Through the Magellanic Cloud' for Dean Ballinger (1973 - 2022). Orpid publishers. Intro by Tracey Slaughter #traceyslaughter https://pohutukawaproducti.wixsite.com/ampersand/blank-3 . . #poetry #travelpoems #travelpoetry #pohutukawaproductions #orpidpublishers
Serious Poetry. 👑 #traceyslaughter #poetry #nzwriters
I love getting our 1940s book-filled backyard sleepout ready for visiting writer friends. The abundantly talented Tracey Slaughter is arriving soon for two weeks of intensive writing. I’ve made up the bed in a new linen quilt from @foxtrot_at_home and added a little rug and a rustic bedside table from @flotsam_and_jetsam_ponsonby 😴 #thewritinglife #supportingcreatives #aotearoaliterature #traceyslaughter
#traceyslaughter #loveAD @0800phantom #newdiscovery #mustreadmore #nzpoetry
I have new work included in @mayhemliteraryjournal 9. Guest editors Stephanie Christie & Mark Prisco. Ed. Tracey Slaughter. Thanks to Publisher Dave Taylor. The Never Press Project, Kirikiriroa. Available in all good bookshops now, or online at www.mayhem.co.nz. . . . #mayhemliteraryjournal #poetry #poetryisnotdead #aotearoapoets #aotearoapoetry #nzpoets #nzpoetsofinstagram #traceyslaughter #booksofinstagram
Happy National Poetry Day! @nzpoetryday . . . #nzpoetryday #nationalpoetrydaynz2021 #phantombillstickers #phantombillstickersnationalpoetryday #nationalpoetryday #poetrylive #poetryofinstagram #poetry #poetrycommunity #traceyslaughter #honetuwhare #mikejohnson #samclements #billycollins #mothermarycomestome #siobhanharvey #jimcarroll #charlesbukowski
'Datura, or nightshades, include the devil’s trumpet, a plant with irresistibly gorgeous flowers that are highly toxic. Simply brushing against the blooms can trigger headaches and ingesting even a small amount of the leaves can induce hallucinations or convulsions. Beautiful and imperiling: that just about sums up the lives of the characters in—as well as the reading experience of—Tracey Slaughter’s newest book of short fiction.' 'Slaughter’s prose is biting while at the same time blunt. Reminiscent of Henry Miller’s #TheRosyCrucifixion and Charles Bukowski’s transgressive fiction, Slaughter’s striking stories will stay with you long after you have turned the last page.' Maggie Trapp reviews #DevilsTrumpet by #TraceySlaughter published April 2021 by @vupbooks Visit the link in our bio for the full review 🔝 #bookreview #bookstagram #igreads #kete #ketebooks #bookreview #bookish #nzauthor #localauthor #fiction #newbooks #shortstories
Join us at Poppies on Thursday April 15 at 6 pm to celebrate the launch of Tracey Slaughter's brilliant new collection of short stories, Devil's Trumpet. #VUP #traceyslaughter #NZbooks #bookshopevents #indiebookstore #bookstagram
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With the gallery closed for 2020 we look back at some highlights of the year. In June Starkwhite presented an exhibition of new work by Layla Rudneva-Mackay. ACC bcc Bananas was a deeply personal exhibition that signalled a life changed and a desire to paint during a period of extreme physical pain. Some compositions were direct and explicit, while others geometric or abstracted, presenting bold form against shallow ground in dynamic brushstrokes. Rudneva-Mackay’s tendency to present ambiguous moments offering a hint of darkness and mystery was now fully fleshed, letting fruit become a vehicle for dark thoughts and dark feelings. ACC bcc Bananas was accompanied by an audio work performed by the artist titled Talking to Frida. Alongside the exhibition Starkwhite hosted an intimate conversation for a small group of women from a range of creative and healing modalities. The powerful discussion invited participants to join Layla, poet Tracey Slaughter and medical specialist Claire McLintock in a conversation around the experiences and perceptions of physical and psychological pain, creativity, and finding a way to speak back. A text on Layla Rudneva-Mackay’s recent practice by Sue Gardiner will appear in Art Collector magazine’s ’50 Things Collectors Should Know’ issue in early 2021. Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Pineapple Ache, 2017-19, oil on canvas, 350 x 350 mm. #laylarudnevamackay @doctordoctorclaire #traceyslaughter @artcollectormagazine @fridakahlo @sueg123 @mothermother_archive #fridakahlo #starkwhite #womenartists #starkwhite
More bookshopping. Tracey Slaughter, Conventional Weapons. I'm a little obsessed by this collection. . . . #traceyslaughter #conventionalweapons #hardtofindbookshop #poetryisnotdead #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #nzpoetry #poetry #poetrylovers
Frontline @accordiusnursingfacility at Wave Parade visiting my mother! Not for the weak. 💯💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 only! #covid19 #nursinghome #dmv #soldier #traceyslaughter #realog #visitingmom #minorsetbackforamajorcomeback #routingforyou
Amuse-bouche from our December issue are free online, including guest fiction by Tracey Slaughter and guest poetry by Fleur Adcock. Here’s to holiday reading! 🥂 . . #takahēmagazine #decemberissue #t97 #traceyslaughter #fleuradcock #fleuradcockpoem #nzwriter #nzreader #nzpoet #nzpoetry #poetsofig #poetsofinstagram #writingcommunity #writingcommunityofinstagram #nzart #nzartist #literaryfiction #literaryjournal #literarymagazine #tbr #tbrpile #freeonline
This weekend we launched the eighth issue of Signals at the National Library in Parnell. This is a literary journal for young writers featuring the work of senior secondary students who have taken part in this year's Young Writers Programme. 200 submissions were received from workshop students at schools all over Auckland, Waikato and Christchurch as well as alumni students. Thanks to our coordinators Ros Ali, Jo Emeney and Carrie Rudzinski for organising the workshops and the guest writers who presented at them; Rosetta Allan, Hannah August, Alex Casey, Catherine Chidgey, Fiona Farrell, Stuart Hoar, Paula Morris, Kerrin.P.Sharpe, Helen Sissons, Tracey Slaughter and Grace Taylor. Finally, thanks to Creative NZ, Joyce Fisher Charitable Trust and Penguin Random House NZ for their support. #creativenz #penguinrandomhouse #johannaemeney #rosetta.allan #splintercheek #alexmcasey #catherinechidgey #traceyslaughter #grace.teuila #nzwriters
"Everything is overexposed. Fruit is shrinking on a chrome plate. Someone packs a yellow suitcase with clothes. The child's blue sketch has pain in the strokes of the crayon and is shown pinned. Something cowardly and handwritten flutters from the fridge." ----- #deletedscenesforlovers #traceyslaughter #bookstagram #bookstagramfeature #bookstagrammer #booksarebetter #whatiread #bookish #ilovebooks #readingismagic #currentlyreading #amreading #bibliophile #bookpic #igreads #readlocal #newzealandreads
@emilywritesnz knows how to tell it like it is. She's done that in two books, through her blog and writes regularly for @thespinofftv. She joins writer and paediatrician @piobird in discussion with #traceyslaughter about the mess and magic of mothering. SAT 2 NOV, 12pm in the Carrus Crystal Palace #TAF2019 #taurangafestival #speakers #parenting
Book launch today at 5.30 pm! #NZpoetry #VUP #traceyslaughter #hamiltonnz #hamiltonevents
Cup of tea with this fine read: love your work, Tracey! #traceyslaughter #shortstories #deletedscenesforlovers
♥ I am really enjoying being amongst #Creatives & soaking up some #WritingWisdom from #Luminaries #KarynHay #TraceySlaughter & #PaulaGreen ♥
Treated myself a liiiiitle too much today, bought a couple of new clothing pieces, but also picked up these two up because I couldn't resist. If I can find the latest issue of @collectivehub magazine I always buy it (because I seem to always miss it) but I also happened to find Tracey Slaughters book 'deleted scenes for lovers'. I have had the privilege of having Tracey as my creative writing lecturer for two years and her tips and tricks were always invaluable. Can't wait to get my teeth stuck in to her book. We should all support local business and artists, so of course I bought the book 😊😊